How can I deal with most of my friends graduating and I am left behind?

Don’t worry most of your friends who graduated will be working in real estate or minimum wage jobs at the beginning of their careers. Be grateful that you can drop out and save yourself from excessive student loans.

So basically what are you saying? Are you saying you don’t like this field because you’re struggling or you are struggling because you don’t like the field of study? In first case you have to study hard to make it happen for you because this is what you would like to do. Forget about others who have graduated, it’s you that’s important and not them. Everyone is own their own at the end. In second case that’s if you feel this is not the field of your passion then think of all pros and cons and decide switching to the one of your liking. But don’t forget there are no short cuts in life so you’ll have to give your best if wanna be successful no matter it is the thing you like or not. Best luck for your future and hope you graduate very soon!!!

^^ That’s good advice, especially the second to the last sentence. All I can add is that every time I’ve lost the passion for something that I’ve started and then quit, I was always sorry later. And every time I finished something I started, whether I had a passion for it or not, I ended up with a strong feeling of accomplishment, thus a boost in self esteem and the confidence to carry on. Nine times out of ten, whatever I finished was useful later in another form. My advice is to bite the bullet and finish what you started. It’s good for you. It’s the adult version of eating your vegetables.

Welcome to Fluther.

I think it depends in how close to graduating you are, and how badly you’re struggling.

If you can complete your degree in a short time, that’s your best course. You can move on and do something big after you have a degree, if it comes to that.

If it looks like you’re not going to finish your degree soon, then evaluate your financial situation and go from there. If finances allow you to change to a different degree you know you’ll like better, then go for it.
If the finances aren’t there, there’s no harm in sitting out a semester or two while you get some work experience. I would, however, suggest you take a course or two, regardless, to keep you around the campus and in study mode.

Welcome.

When or the day you/they graduate is not something you can use to measure one’s future success. A college degree is merely a piece of paper…success on the other hand comes from the passion one possesses within to pursue a career that is meaningful and challenging to them. If you graduated along side of your friends, it seems you would have left college confused and miserable. You still have time to make adjustments to eventually get your degree feeling positive about your time in school.

Take a time out. Relax and look for other options in other fields of study.

It took me 6 years to get my BA in Zoology. I struggled with chemistry, physics, genetics and math. I didn’t get the grades for Veterinary school or grad school. For a week I was pretty down. Then I looked around at my options. There was a demand for clinical lab techs. Several of my fellow students were getting well paying jobs working in hospital labs right out of school. I liked working in the lab in school and the thought of someone paying me to do that was incising. All I had to do was take 3 or 4 more classes in clinical science and I found my nich for the next 38 years.

Good luck to you!

Separate the two things. Your friends are graduating, so you can focus on making new friends just like you made these other friends. Every new semester brings a new group of people you can get to know in your new classes. Do you live with roommates?

Next is your major. Explore other degree possibilities in your school that might be a better fit. Senior year is when you do the most focused work in your major. If you are Business, maybe you can choose Marketing or Finance or Management or HR or whatever else is offered under that umbrella so you don’t have to take many extra classes to get a degree. Or, think about taking a fun class to distract you, or a class that you always wished you had tried. Maybe you can minor or double major easily.

Are the friends in question old high school friends, or friends you made after you enrolled? Did you start in with a business major because that’s what your friends did, or did you make that decision independently?